Category: Autobiography

Recollections of an Old Soldier

Price: $30.00

Seller ID: fhp2020

Condition: Good

David Perry was an American soldier who fought in the Revolutionary War, which resulted in the founding of the United States – this autobiography recalls his early years, and his role in the conflict.Born in colonial Massachusetts on August 8th, 1741, Perry had a difficult childhood – the death of his mother when he was merely seven meant he was sent to live with his uncle to learn the trade of tanning and shoemaking. Like many boys of his time, he received basic militia and leadership training in the countryside of New England, and saw battle whilst a teenager. Perry's earliest memories of co...
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The Education of Little Tree

By: Forrest Carter

Price: $25.00

Publisher: : 1976

Seller ID: mcna2025

ISBN-13: 9780826308795

Binding: Soft Cover

Condition: moderately used, some markings

216 pages, free shipping media mail. A Cherokee boyhood of the 1930's remembered in generous, loving detail...an unbelievably rich young life. A felicitous remembrance of a unique education.
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The Education of Little Tree

By: Forrest Carter

Price: $25.00

Publisher: : 1976

Seller ID: mcna2025a

ISBN: 044002319

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Used, Library

216 pages, free shipping media mail. Little Tree was five, and an orphan, when he went to live with his Cherokee grandparents' Tennessee log cabin with the mountain at its back and the clear water of the spring branch in front.
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From Cotton Patch to Master Builder

By: Herman Duwain Hughes

Price: $18.00

Publisher: : 1987

Seller ID: mcnm2007

Condition: New

70 pages, Autobiography of Herman Duwain Hughes. Hughes recorded the life of his courageous Texas family as they moved from farm to farm, suffering the hardships of poverty, tragedy, and deprivation as they tried desperately to "eke" out a living from the soil with the use of primitive equipment.
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Dear Brother: Letters of William Clark to Jonathan Clark

By: James J. Holmberg

Price: $30.00

Seller ID: fhc2027

ISBN-13: 9780300090109

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good

Over the course of his career, American explorer William Clark (1770–1838) wrote at least forty-five letters to his older brother Jonathan, including six that were written during the epic Lewis and Clark Expedition. This book publishes many of these letters for the first time, revealing important details about the expedition, the mysterious death of Meriwether Lewis, the status of Clark’s slave York (the first African American known to have crossed the continent from coast to coast), and other matters of historical significance. There are letters concerning the establishment of the Corps of...
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John Robert Shaw: An Autobiography of Thirty Years, 1777-1807

By: John Robert Shaw, Oressa M. Teagarden

Price: $40.00

Seller ID: fhs2023

ISBN-13: 9780821410189

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good

In the summer of 1807 more than a thousand subscribers from New England to Tennessee paid for the initial printing of The Life and Travels of John Robert Shaw: A Narrative of the Life and Travels of the Well-Digger, now resident of Lexington, Kentucky, Written by Himself. Shaw had come to Rhode Island as a British redcoat to put down the colonial rebellion. Through various quirks of fate, including being taken a prisoner of war, he ended up fighting with the Americans. Shaw was an exuberant spirit whose rowdy drinking bouts and related predicaments alternated with periods of wholehearted effor...
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My Search for Self: How I Found My Birth Family and Discovered My Heritage

By: Joseph E. Knight

Price: $40.00

Seller ID: fhk2006

Binding: Softcover

Condition: Good

The recollections Joseph Knight, who tells his story of finding and reuniting with his birth family, and how it began with a single Facebook post. Includes color and black and white photographs.
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Rooted in Florida Soil

By: Julia Lake Kellersberger

Price: $30.00

Seller ID: mcfl1601

Binding: Softcover

Condition: Poor - Staplebound, Taped, Staining, Excessive Wear and Tear

The first volume of the Local History Series of the Kellersberger Fund of South Brevard Historical Society; a personal narrative of the lives of Julia Lake Kellersberger and her husband. 60 pages.
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Recollections of a Handcart Pioneer of 1860: A Woman's Life on the Mormon Frontier

By: Mary Ann Hafen

Price: $18.00

Seller ID: fhh2016

ISBN-13: 9780803272194

Binding: Softcover

Condition: New

In the summer of 1860, the author of these recollections, then six years old, walked beside her parents’ handcart from Florence, Nebraska, to Salt Lake City. The family, converts to Mormonism, had left their comfortable home near Bern, Switzerland, to make the long journey to the Mormon Zion. Nearly eighty years later Mary Ann Hafen published this account of her life, giving an unparalleled, candid, inside view of the Mormon woman’s world. Called to go with the Swiss Company to settle the "Dixieland" region of southern Utah—a hot, dry, inhospitable land—Mary Ann's family lived in thatch, dugo...
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All Over but the Shoutin'

By: Rick Bragg

Price: $10.00

Seller ID: mc2038

ISBN-13: 9780679774020

Binding: Softcover

Condition: Like New

This haunting, harrowing, gloriously moving recollection of a life on the American margin is the story of Rick Bragg, who grew up dirt-poor in northeastern Alabama, seemingly destined for either the cotton mills or the penitentiary, and instead became a Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter for The New York Times. It is the story of Bragg's father, a hard-drinking man with a murderous temper and the habit of running out on the people who needed him most.But at the center of this soaring memoir is Bragg's mother, who went eighteen years without a new dress so that her sons could have school clothes a...
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Sixty-Five Years of Trying to Grow Up (And Never Quite Making It)

By: Valjean Bowerman

Price: $45.00

Publisher: : 1982 1st edition

Seller ID: fhb2030

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used, Good

An autobiography by Valjean Bowerman, detailing her life in West Texas. 340 pages.
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Category: Autobiography